Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland 46745

Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland50026

Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects. Rain location: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September. OOFDG Website If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps. 52046

The Post Office could announce the sale of the Historic Downtown Berkeley Post Office any time now. Come and help plan our next actions in defense of our post office and against privatization. Check out the video of Peter Byrne’s talk last week at our Save the Post Office Rally! 52868

Presentation will include police surveillance photos, cartoons and graphics documenting the student and faculty activism at the City College of NY spawned by the Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe. This activism brought repeated crackdowns by the administration and culminated in the dismissal of 50 CCNY faculty & staff — the largest academic purge in US history. 52936

Party/Street Party The City of Albany plans on evicting the residents of the Albany Bulb sometime this month. The Albany Bulb is home to over sixty residents who have made the Bulb a home and a community like nothing else in the Bay Area. If evicted, the residents of the Bulb will have no where to go but the streets of Albany, a city with next to no support for its homeless. Rally at the Albany City Council this Monday at 6:00pm! At 6:30 we will participate in the public … Continued

Lynne Stewart’s burthday is October 8th and rallies, vigils and speak outs will be held throughout the country. In the Bay Area, we will gather at 5 p.m. and speak out from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. outside the offices of Senator Dianne Feinstein, Market and Montgomery in San Francisco. Our goal continues to be to win compassionate release for our fellow Guild member, who is suffering from cancer and turning 74 years old. Senator Feinstein has a unique role to play as a member of the Judiciary Committee. There are … Continued

No Concessions for BART workers! Fight union-busting! Stop Scabbing! BART managers want to provoke a strike when the 60-day “cooling off period” ends at midnight on Oct. 10 and blame it on the transit unions. Thousands of other Bay Area workers are working without a contract. All out on Oct. 10! BART is threatening to run scab trains and unleash cops to protect strikebreakers. We can’t allow this vicious anti-labor attack to prevail in the San Francisco Bay Area, a union stronghold! Defend George Figueroa, former ATU strike coordinator. Demand … Continued

All Out to Sacramento Wednesday October 9! 11:30 am: Opening Rally 1:00-3:30 pm: California Public Safety Hearings on Solitary Confinement & Human Rights 4:00 pm: Closing Rally During their historic 60-day hunger strike, California prisoners were able to endure incredible violence from prison administrators and garner international support for their cause. As a result, on October 9, California’s Public Safety Committee will hold the first of several promised hearings to address and take action around solitary confinement and human rights abuses in California prisons. Former prisoners, loved ones, lawyers, experts … Continued

Support Richmond eminent domain Wednesday October 9 Join the demonstration in Oakland to support the Richmond local principal reduction program, called by ACCE/Home Defenders League with the endorsement of Strike Debt Bay Area. Richmond has offered to restore financial stability to hundreds of homeowners by buying their distressed mortgages and negotiating new loans at fair market value–or seizing the mortgages by eminent domain if necessary. The banks holding these mortgages ignored the offers, Wells Fargo and other banks filed a law suit (dismissed for the time being) and Wall Street withheld purchasing a city bond. … Continued

Almost three years have passed since the events that led to the ousting of Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of autocratic rule. In her talk, Shimaa Helmy, a young human rights activist, will give a first-hand account of the unfolding crisis in Egypt, the state of human rights and media activists, and will offer some insight into what is next for Egypt. The event is hosted by: HASS Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Event cosponsors: Center for African Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley … Continued

What’s Up?. Come join comrades. Talk. Reflect. Enjoy. Music. Speakers. Food will be served, and movies will be shown as soon as it gets dark. Other activities as they develop! Read an article with more details on the Anniversary Party here. Theme. Solidarity with the 60 day California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike and the 60 hour Solidarity Fast by two OO participants, opposition to solitary confinement, privatization of prisons and the rest of our commons. Schedule. 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Music by Rocker T, JuJu, Street Black, TMac and possibly … Continued

BART workers could go out on strike at 12:01 AM Friday, October 11th. BART management may attempt to run BART trains between West Oakland and Embarcadero. Sponsored by the Transit Workers Support Committee.52946

On Friday at 6:30 pm we will be screening “Bum’s Paradise”, a documentary about the Albany Bulb, outside the Sierra Club’s bi-monthly “Green Friday” event. The Sierra Club is pushing a project on the land that would result in the eviction of the Bulb’s 60+ residents. Our screening will demonstrate to the Sierra Club that there is public support for the continued existence of the Bulb. Food will be provided but bring blankets, folding chairs, mats, and warm clothing to stay warm! “Bums’ Paradise is a 53-minute documentary that depicts … Continued

Come help us prepare for the next year in the struggle to get Justice for Alan! Help us with our new campaign to pressure California’s Attorney General to prosecute Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. Join us in demanding that Oakland not implement a proposed youth curfew aimed directly at young men of color. Report on First Friday Outreach, labor support, more. 52828

The Police Accountability Tour, on the road from mid-August until December, will maximize police accountability by facilitating connections and collaboration among those who know that badges don’t grant extra rights, and through skill sharing and the capturing and dissemination of relevant content. This tour will help further connect individuals involved with Cop Block, Cop Watch, and Peaceful Streets groups as well as all police-watching groups and people around the world, so we can together advance a reality free from institutionalized violence. On Saturday, Oct. 12th we’ll have a meetup and … Continued

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